I wonder why we have such trouble letting Venice sink or abandoning New Orleans in the wake of Katrina with all the toxins embedded in the buildings and soil. We cannot right the axis of the earth, stop the ice caps from melting, clean the…

“Give each project at least one line. You should open the poem with the first project, and close it with the last, but otherwise use the projects in whatever order you like. Do all twenty. Let different ones be in different voices. Don’t take things…

5am poem 3 Help Fire. Storm. Firestorm. Could we not have called Mayor Mike back to assist? Rumble smash smoke sting melting… melting… Lahainatown. We could not have called Mayor Mike back to assist. I wrote him several messages. Deleted them all before sending. Pilau…

Twenty little poetry projects, after Jim Simmerman and Lexanne leonard 1. Start with the salt 2. Stir up and down, up and down then around 17 times. Slap it twice 3. scatter randomly throughout the poem. 4. Feel the purple crawling up your fingers, the…

Hour 3 9/02/2023   “Seawalls…”   California dreamin’ been there, done that. East and Gulf Coasts… Japan, other green-riden places… Norway, Portugal, Crete, Turkey, Great Britain… and places that aren’t places anymore.   I’ve paused on docks, promontories,  battlements, bridges; in meadows, gardens, pubs, malls;…

It was 1862, late September, on the banks of the Mississippi River, the entire town burned to the ground, all that remains is one church and one dwelling. A decaying village that was once prosperous, now carries the burden of the cotton. How can this…

I am wilderness Full of earth and roots I taste the water around my ankles I drank the wind and floated a fluffy white cloud. Do you see yourself in my window,  blue eyes Londan calling, sanzy , Sandra , loves the ocean, she breaths…

She strips next to a doll-sized mannequin for an unimpressed audience, all studying the choreography, and will she or won’t she – the women don’t blush; they’re studying from Godard’s notes and the men are as involved as the proximity of the stage will allow….

after Diana Khoi Nguyen On the first night we ran out simple lesson held prisoner sighs of moon sinking teeth into its exposed belly. It will not return with us the innocence like mud between our toes broken skin healing without the faintest scar. Their…

lying in wait but someone’s lying to me in this house cleaning and clearing, trying, and someone’s lying tired and tired i’m not in understanding but I’m listening trying not to be prying